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Captain America: The First Avenger



Title: Captain America - The First Avenger
Year: 2011
Time: 124min
Rating: 6.8/10

World War 2. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is a young man who agreed to volunteer in a series of experiments aimed at creating the American supersoldier. The military can turn it into a human weapon, but soon realize that the supersoldier is too valuable to jeopardize the fight against the Nazis. Thus, Rogers is used as a celebrity host, with a presence in parades held throughout Europe in order to raise the esteem of the combatants. To do so is to use a dress in the colors of U.S. flag, blue, white and red. Only a Nazi plan makes Rogers into action and take the nickname Captain America, using their gifts to fight them in the trenches full of war.




Unfortunately, Captain America: The First Avenger, is an achievement less successful than their predecessors. Perhaps the very nature of the patriotic and propagandistic cartoon character, this is a silly movie, simplistic, lacking in irony distilled Iron Man (Iron Man, 2008), the internal conflicts seen in the protagonist of The Incredible Hulk (The Incredible Hulk, 2008) or semi-Shakespearean family relationship present in Thor (ibid., 2011). In fact, the adventure of Captain America seems sometimes a children's film, even a Disney production, where everything is black or white: the heroes are perfect and mighty and the villains are evil monsters with plans for world domination.